Film History (2009) - Technicians of the Unknown Cinema: British Critical Discourse and the Analysis of Collaboration in Film Production

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• article: Technicians of the Unknown Cinema: British Critical Discourse and the Analysis of Collaboration in Film Production
• author(s): Martin Stollery
• journal: Film History (2009)
• issue: volume 21, issue 4, pages 373-393
• journal ISSN: 0892-2160
• publisher: Indiana University Press
• keywords: "Michael Balcon Presents a Lifetime in Films" - by Michael Balcon, Adrian Brunel, Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville, Angus MacPhail, Authorship, Barry Salt, Berthold Viertel, British, British Film Institute, British film history, Caroline Alice Lejeune, Charles Barr, Chicago, Illinois, David Bordwell, Documentary films, Edwin Greenwood, Film editing, Filmmakers, Gainsborough Pictures, Gaumont British Picture Corporation Limited, History, Ian Dalrymple, Ivor Montagu, Jeffrey Richards, John Grierson, Lindsay Anderson, London Film Society, Louis Levy, Methods, Michael Balcon, Motion picture editors, Motion pictures, Neil Sinyard, New York City, New York, Noise, Nova Pilbeam, Peter Hutchings, Peter Wollen, Practice, Production and direction, Random House, Richard Allen, Robert Stevenson, Sarah Street, Studies, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), Transatlantic Pictures, V.F. Perkins, Victor Saville, Works

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Abstract

Since the early 1970s British cinema history has conventionally been characterized as an unknown landscape, a tradition for which even those who created it knew little and cared less. This essay argues instead that especially in the mid 1930s and late 1940s there was an active discourse with the film industry's technical community, a debate that was particularly concerned with issues of collaboration and authorship. Concentrating on the work of Adrian Brunel and Ivor Montagu and their associates, notably film editor Ian Dalrymple, the essay outlines one aspect of this debate, and observes its traces on the production of Berthold Viertel's Little Friend (Gaumont-British, 1934).